The Frye Art Museum continues to strategically build its collection through purchases and gifts, both deepening existing areas of strength and diversifying holdings to reflect the museum’s expansive curatorial program and Seattle’s globalized present.
Acquisitions of the last ten years demonstrate the museum’s commitment to growing and contextualizing its distinctive historical collections of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art while broadening its holdings of contemporary works to embrace previously underrepresented identities, perspectives, and forms of expression. To some extent, acquisitions mirror the museum’s exhibition history, creating a material record of the institution’s engagement with local, national, and international artists and commemorating the special audience connection formed through temporary presentations. Contemporary artworks chosen for the collection often respond to or complicate the narratives around mediums and genres traditionally associated with the Frye, like painting, landscape, and portraiture.
TrapDuane Linklater
Girl with Aechmea RhodocyaneaEva Pokorny
Hit the Whites with the Red Wedge!El Lissitzky
EidolonCris Bruch
Hedonic Reversal #7Rodrigo Valenzuela
Chemically TannedAlison Bremner
North Slope #15, KuparukMary Henry
Du jaroj da seksa perforto kontrau virinaj Egiptaj manifestaciantoj, kaj jam ni portas trancilojn en la stratoj...Ellen Lesperance
Birmingham (left)Toyin Ojih Odutola
Birmingham (center)Toyin Ojih Odutola
Birmingham (right)Toyin Ojih Odutola
Portrait of a womanFritz Hickmann
Tradition as Adaptive StrategyMatt Browning
this trembling turf (the shallows)Mary Ann Peters
Landscape with ChadAnne Fenton
UntitledKo Kirk Yamahira
Untitled (XIV)Rafael Soldi
Lot 248 (still)Amie Siegel
Hedonic Reversal #15Rodrigo Valenzuela
Pink on Black GroupKatherine Bradford
ButterflyBony Ramirez
Madrone + MullanSadie Wechsler
Mangahufo' I famaguonGisela McDaniel
Night ForestAnn Leda Shapiro
Three SlicesAmoako Boafo
Black Face Red Bone with Black BobTschabalala Self
Black Face with Wide ChestTschabalala Self
Becoming MineralClarissa Tossin
Landscape #7Matt Browning
Michael Sklar, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
UntitledDennis Ramsay
Hermann H. Frye, father of Charles H. FryeHenry Raschen
Window InstallationBuster Simpson
Mädchen mit Guitare (Girl with Guitar)Bernhard Schneider-Blumberg
Bamboo No.17Lockwood Dennis
Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod)Jeffry Mitchell
The UnknownOtis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
Untitled [Portrait of an elderly woman]Unknown, American
Carol La Brie, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
Red CarGene Rivers
Untitled [Moonlit landscape with river and cabin]Henry Raschen
Hedonic Reversal #2Rodrigo Valenzuela
Painted SilhouetteBuster Simpson
Bamboo No.2Jimmy Jet
Bamboo No.18Barbara Noah
To a FlameAnthony White
Untitled [Uli figure from New Ireland, Melanesia, early 20th century]Helmi Dagmar Juvonen
Max Delys, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
UntitledHans Dahl
May Day – All Russian Saturday for CommunismDimitrii S. Moor
Help!Dimitrii S. Moor
Hedonic Reversal #3Rodrigo Valenzuela
Street ActionBuster Simpson
Bamboo No.3Gene Gentry McMahon
Bamboo No.19Rebecca Struck
Untitled (Badlands)Juventino Aranda
UntitledConstant Troyon
Jane Forth, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
Hedonic Reversal #1Rodrigo Valenzuela
May Day 1920. Over the Ruins of Capitalism Toward the Brotherhood of the Workers of the Whole World!Nikolai Kochergin
Remember the Starving!Ivan Simakov
Occasional PoemsMaged Zaher
Hedonic Reversal #4Rodrigo Valenzuela
This Is Who We AreInye Wokoma
Bamboo No.4Mrs. Crispwick
Bamboo No.20Fay Jones
EgungunCauleen Smith
Get up!Anne Focke
Edith Cottrell, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
Specular ReflectionsLeo Berk
Wrangel IS Still Alive! Finish Him Off Without Mercy!Dimitrii S. Moor
ProleRodrigo Valenzuela
Hedonic Reversal #5Rodrigo Valenzuela
The Pig Went Down to the Harbor and Wept #6Jim Woodring
Bamboo No.5Scott Smith
Bamboo No.21Michael Spafford
Dress for SuccessRose Nestler
Tree GuardBuster Simpson
Wind JangleLeo Berk
Young Leninists Are the Children if IlychI. Isenberg
Our Blood Is In These Stones: Ama-Ibi WokomaInye Wokoma
Hedonic Reversal #6Rodrigo Valenzuela
Karla Kay KeeleyRay Fullmer
Bamboo No.6T. Michael Gardiner
Bamboo No.22Karen Guzak
Strange BusinessRose Nestler
UntitledMark Calderon
Avatar: Fanon & DeccaC. Davida Ingram
Have You Volunteered?Dimitrii S. Moor
Books (Please)! In All Branches of KnowledgeAlexander Rodchenko
EcdysisIshmael Butler
Hedonic Reversal #8Rodrigo Valenzuela
Untitled [Six dogs]Eugène-Joseph Verboeckhoven
Bamboo No.7Dennis Evans
Bamboo No.23George Tsutakawa
Portrait of Erwin WurmJoseph Park
Michael Sklar, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
Max Delys, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
Cossack, Whose Side Are You On? Ours or Theirs?Dimitrii S. Moor
Women Workers and Peasants: To the Polls, All of You! From Ranks with the Men Under the Red Banner. Let Us Terrify the Bourgeoisie!Nikolai Valerianov
Dawn in LuxorKahlil Joseph
Hedonic Reversal #9Rodrigo Valenzuela
Untitled [Landscape with houses]C. Reder
Bamboo No.8Jeffrey Bishop
Bamboo No.24Gayle Bard
FormationKelly Akashi
Max Delys, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
RiverTim Lowly
Frank in the 3rd DimensionJim Woodring
Alice™ (you don’t have to think about it)Kahlil Joseph
Hedonic Reversal #10Rodrigo Valenzuela
Eat Frye's Baby BeefVictor Steinbrueck
Bamboo No.9Mare Blocker
Bamboo No.25Carolyn Law
Allegory of the Raging SunKat Lyons
Jane Forth, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
Arctic TwilightFred Machetanz
Solemn Oath on Entering the Red Army of the Workers and PeasantsDimitrii S. Moor
Eclipse Tower 1Web Crowell and Stacey Levine
Hedonic Reversal #11Rodrigo Valenzuela
Bamboo No.10Virginia Paquette
Bamboo No.26Nancy Mee
After Boucher: UntitledMolly Jae Vaughan
Withered Lotus Cast in IronPan Gongkai
Forward in the Defense of the Urals!Aleksander Apsit
The Devil’s PuppetDimitrii S. Moor
Bloody Sunday!Unknown
Be the First To Review The B83Steve Fisk
Hedonic Reversal #12Rodrigo Valenzuela
Waves FloaterRomero Britto
Bamboo No.11Mauricio Robalino
Inside the TentClaire Fejes
Ear (Good)Srijon Chowdhury
ClinkersLeo Berk
Michael Sklar, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
Defend Petrograd with Your Own Life!Aleksander Apsit
Comrade Lenin Sweeps Away the Filth of the WorldMikhail Cheremnykh and Viktor Deni
Who’s an Anti-Semite?Unknown
An Agnostic ManifestoLesley Hazleton
Hedonic Reversal #13Rodrigo Valenzuela
UntitledThomas Spinks
Bamboo No.12C.T. Chew
Kahhoaruk of NoatakClaire Fejes
Stylite AltarpieceEden Seifu
Not Waving, but DrowningJeffry Mitchell
Long Live the Third Communist International!Sergei Ivanov
Sonnet ManifestoPaul Mullin
Hedonic Reversal #14Rodrigo Valenzuela
UntitledFritz Chwala
Bamboo No.13Jose Rodriguez Guerra
Sewing MukluksClaire Fejes
Ground of GroundHarry Gould Harvey IV
Ode to Octavia Part 12: (Sparkles)...Recollections of the WraithThe Black Constellation
Max Delys, from Red Book #178Andy Warhol
The Enemy Wants to Take Moscow, the Heart of Soviet Russia. The Enemy Must Be Destroyed – Forward, Comrades!Vladimir Ivanovich Fidman
Our Blood Is In These Stones: Daye WokomaInye Wokoma
Hedonic Reversal #16Rodrigo Valenzuela
UntitledJulian E. Itter
Bamboo No.14Robert Kraftt
Adam and Eve DressedJanette K. Hopper
For FunKhari Johnson-Ricks
Ode to Octavia: Neo-Ancient TaliswomanThe Black Constellation
El Sisifo (The Sisyphus)Rodrigo Valenzuela
The Final HourUnknown
Help! – Enlist in the Ranks of MOPR!Viktor Deni
Our Blood Is In These Stones: Versa RuffInye Wokoma
Hedonic Reversal #17Rodrigo Valenzuela
Untitled [landscape in snow]Viktor A. Predil
Bamboo No.15George Chacona
Disaster KitchenMolly Zuckerman-Hartung
Ode to Octavia: Cranium Adornment #5The Black Constellation
UntitledDennis Ramsay
Join the Red Cavalry!Unknown
1917 – October – 1920Unknown
Louisa Rier Frye, mother of Charles H. FryeHenry Raschen
Our Blood Is In These Stones: Yirim SeckInye Wokoma
Shepherd in the HillsAttributed to Salvator Rosa
Berry PickersRie Muñoz
Bamboo No.16Julie Paschkis
From Sea to DawnRamin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Baby BlueAmoako Boafo
